Real Estate team closes deal on new Partner
Top 100 full service law firm Birketts has strengthened its Real Estate Team with the strategic appointment of partner Stephen Sumpton.
Charity helps to take away the post-Christmas blues with environmentally-friendly tree collections
After the excitement and buzz of Christmas comes the seemingly endless month of January. The decorations are put away, but there is still a now brittle tree hanging around.
New solutions to agri-food challenges in REAP 2020 Start-Up Showcase
A pop-up livestock facility that aims to eliminate greenhouse gas emissions; edible micro plastics from pea powder; super compact robot technology to improve yields; pheromone traps to inform precision spraying; land tech to support development of Natural Capital markets; bee wellbeing alert system to improve health of rented hives; seeing through clouds to improve crop risk assessment.
Conversational communication
Maximise your communication effectiveness; make it conversational. Communication coach (and conversational communicator) Jon Torrens explains how.
New report shows 10% of UK’s top female BioBusiness talent is based at Stevenage Bioscience Catalyst
The report released today by BioBeat showcasing the 30 top female leaders in the UK bioscience sector has named three people from organisations based at Stevenage Bioscience Catalyst (SBC), totalling 10% of the list.
This surprises us - every time
You’d think we’d be used to it by now. But we’re not. It surprises us every time a business owner says that they don’t need to take cyber security preventative measures.
Camcycle thrilled to see the Abbey-Chesterton bridge in place and already uniting Cambridge communities
The 40m span of the Abbey-Chesterton bridge was lifted into place across the River Cam in the early hours of Sunday morning, a significant milestone in the progress of the Chisholm Trail. When complete, the Chisholm Trail will be a new mostly traffic-free route stretching right across the city, from the business parks and communities in the north to the Biomedical Campus and residential areas in…
Howes Percival features in 'The Times’ Best Law Firms
Howes Percival has been named one of the top 200 law firms in England and Wales in The Times’ Best Law Firms 2021 list published on 5 November 2020.
Howes Percival advises on successful planning appeal for HB (South Caldecotte) Limited
Leading law firm Howes Percival has advised HB (South Caldecotte) Limited on its successful planning appeal which grants the developer outline planning permission for a 140-acre strategic employment site, south of Milton Keynes.
New affordable homes promised for residents across Cambridgeshire and Peterborough
The Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Combined Authority has approved the spend of £19.1 million to create 453 new affordable homes over 13 sites for people right across the region.
Vatican Library’s digitised manuscripts – including oldest surviving copy of the Bible – protected from cyber-attacks using AI
Darktrace, the world’s leading cyber AI company, has today announced that the Vatican Library, which holds one of the oldest and most significant collections of historical texts in the world, has selected Darktrace AI to protect it against cyber-attacks.
AVEVA expands its collaboration with Microsoft with a focus on cloud and AI
AVEVA and Microsoft have announced collaboration on cloud and AI to drive digital transformation in the manufacturing and energy sectors.
New report showcases resourceful leaders in UK bioscience for challenging times
Released today by BioBeat, the seventh annual Movers and Shakers in BioBusiness report highlights 30 examples of resourceful leaders in the UK bioscience sector.
Living Wage Week - Council celebrates businesses which have helped tackle poverty during coronavirus
Cambridge City Council is using Living Wage Week this week (9-15 November) as an opportunity to thank businesses in Cambridge helping tackle issues related to poverty which have been exacerbated by the coronavirus pandemic.
Mill Road survey launches
A survey launched yesterday (Monday 9 November), to find out what people think of the trial closure of Cambridge's Mill Road Bridge to all traffic except for buses, cyclists and pedestrians.
UK hub for research into security threats awarded £5.3m funding
The Centre for Research and Evidence on Security Threats (CREST) has been awarded a further £5.3 million to continue its behavioural and social science research into security threats to the UK.
InnClusive launches across UK and Ireland
The way we consume has changed. Renting property is not exempt from this. A problem still exists for the modern consumer. The process: of sourcing, viewing, securing, furnishing, setting up utility bills, creating council tax accounts, credit checks and references is a lengthy, multichannel, and arduous one. This is not inline with the demands of the modern world and the requirements of the…
Cambridge Index rises 1.7%
The Cambridge Index advanced 406.7 points or 1.7% to close at 23954.4, as nine of the top ten Index heavyweights posted weekly gains to their share prices.
Effectiveness and efficiency – how to strike the right balance
Do you know how to strike the right balance between effectiveness and efficiency? It's easier than you think, but first, you must let go of the illusion that you can always be efficient and effective at the same time in everything that you do.
Working from home in Lockdown 2.0
With the shift towards working at home looking like it will be with us for the long-term, employees need to remain vigilant to protect their organisation from potential breaches and attacks.
Birketts recruits top lawyer to Property Litigation Team
Top 100 UK law firm Birketts has strengthened its experienced Property Litigation Team with the arrival of Legal Director, Lynsey Ellard.
Bicycle Therapeutics presents posters at the SITC 35th anniversary annual meeting
Bicycle Therapeutics plc (Nasdaq: BCYC), a biotechnology company pioneering a new and differentiated class of therapeutics based on its proprietary bicyclic peptide (Bicycle®) technology, today announced that preclinical data for BT7480, a tumour-targeted immune cell agonist (TICA™), and an EphA2/CD137 TICA will be presented during an e-poster session at the Society for Immunotherapy of Cancer’s …
Consultation launched on trial walking and cycling measures
A consultation on trial measures introduced to make it easier for people to walk and cycle around Cambridge during Covid-19 has been launched today.
Research and Innovation Highlights from ARU
Anglia Ruskin Univeristy (ARU) is pleased to share the latest issue of its annual publication Research and Innovation Highlights.
COEL team operates a full service during lockdown#2
COEL and its subsidiary companies CPMS and CMS Cambridge will remain open and will continue to deliver offices and laboratories throughout the duration of the new lockdown.